Registered Agent

What a registered agent is on the hook for, serving as your own, switching services without leaving a gap, and what service of process looks like.

Registered Agent September 10, 2026 Service of Process for LLC: What Arrives and When to Answer The packet names a court, a case number, and a date that is not your deadline. What is inside it, who may legally accept it, and where the answer clock starts. 12 min read
Registered Agent August 18, 2026 How to Change Registered Agent for LLC Two clocks run when you change registered agents and they do not line up. The order that avoids a lapse, and the states that cancel your LLC for one. 11 min read
Registered Agent August 17, 2026 Can You Be Your Own Registered Agent Being your own registered agent is free and legal in most states. What it costs is an address on the public record, weekday presence, and a filing owners miss. 12 min read

About this section

For eight years Alden Deel ran the back office of a five-person design studio: annual reports in four states, registered agent renewals, city license bills, and — twice — the reinstatement paperwork after a filing slipped past its deadline. He is not an attorney and not an accountant. Each guide here describes the mechanism a filing follows and then sends you to your own state's agency page for the form, the fee, and the date, because those three change and the mechanism mostly does not.

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